1 - Can I sell raffle tickets that only have possible prizes of meat
to minors in a licenced palce
2 - Can i ask a minor to assist me in drawing raffle ticket from a
barrel at a licenced premises?
3 - Can a person get on a microphone in a lisenced premises and advise
the public patrons that there are only 20 tickets left in a raffle to
try and entise people to purchase tickets when there are hundreds of
tickets left.?

I am a volunteer at a RSL club and sell raffle tickets and have been
informed different things in relation to the above questions, and i
would like to find out what or what i should or should not do and
where the authority lies.? Please supply answers to my questions with
relevence to the state of Victoria in Australia.

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Clarification of Question by doc59-ga on 25 Mar 2005 16:25 PST

I need answers that I can take to the committee so that they know the
law in relation to the questions I am asking, Please

Number 3 is clearly deceit and fraud.  I'm guessing RSL is some sort
of anti-ethics association.

Thankyou for your comment but the RSL is  a Returned Service Club run
by a committee of ex-servicemen.

Well, there goes my respect for Aussie soldiers.

Just kidding.  Aussies are great people and valiant soldiers.

Seriously, number 3 shows a lack of morals.  Is this truly how you you
wish to portray the RSL on what is essentially a public forum?

To nelson-ga, No it is obviously not how i want to present the RSL as
a returned soldier myself. The RSL is a great organization as a whole
and does a lot for ex soldiers as myself. But this is the reason I
asked this question, so that i could ensure ex-soldiers get the
service they have earned from an organization that is built to supply
honest and high moralled services to those soldiers and their partners
as well as the public, although in saying this I must concede to say
that the committee's whorun a lot of RSL's, not all, do not have the
proffessional knowledge nor experience to do so, and it is in forams
like this, that enable the correct information to be passed onto these
people.

If you do have some genuine areas that i can seek my answers, then
please advise me, no-one seems to be able to direct me, and as you
have seen by the lack of comments and answers to my questions, no-one
really seems interested.

Please remember that as a soldier, you have a code of honor to live
by.  You know it's wrong to say that there are only 20 tickets left
when there are in fact hundreds.  Try saying "tickets are going fast"
or "we don't know how long tickets will last, so get yours quick." 
These will entice people to buy tickets without you having to lie.

Best of luck.